The Loopdown — Siddharth Pandalai Field notes from an engineer who writes — Android, Kotlin, and KMP, each lesson starring a personified bug. https://cv-siddharth.vercel.app/loopdown 2026-07-31T00:00:00Z Siddharth Pandalai collectAsState is quietly leaking your work https://cv-siddharth.vercel.app/loopdown#collectasstate-leak 2026-07-31T00:00:00Z 2026-07-31T00:00:00Z Field notes from “Ghosts In The Recomposition” on compose-performance. Topics: android, jetpack-compose, flow, lifecycle, collectAsStateWithLifecycle. expect/actual is the wrong default in KMP https://cv-siddharth.vercel.app/loopdown#kmp-expect-actual-default 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z Field notes from “One Brain Two Bodies” on kmp. Topics: kotlin, kmp, multiplatform, architecture, expect-actual, di. Your LazyColumn recomposes on every scroll https://cv-siddharth.vercel.app/loopdown#lazycolumn-recomposition 2026-07-24T00:00:00Z 2026-07-24T00:00:00Z Field notes from “Ghosts In The Recomposition” on compose-performance. Topics: android, jetpack-compose, recomposition, stability, performance. The 5-second window that crashes your service https://cv-siddharth.vercel.app/loopdown#foreground-service-five-seconds 2026-07-22T00:00:00Z 2026-07-22T00:00:00Z Field notes from “The Night Shift” on background-execution. Topics: android, foreground-service, workmanager, lifecycle, doze. CancellationException is not an assassin https://cv-siddharth.vercel.app/loopdown#coroutine-cancellation-messenger 2026-07-20T00:00:00Z 2026-07-20T00:00:00Z Field notes from “The Coroutine Court” on concurrency. Topics: kotlin, coroutines, cancellation, structured-concurrency, android. Teaching a phone to disbelieve its own GPS https://cv-siddharth.vercel.app/loopdown#mileway-dead-reckoning 2026-07-19T00:00:00Z 2026-07-19T00:00:00Z Field notes from “Sensors Who Lie” on location. Topics: android, location, sensor-fusion, dead-reckoning, kalman.